What Bob Dylan Wanted at Twenty-three
Those casual fans wonder why he can’t be more like the Stones, unfailing jukeboxes of their earlier selves. They want to squint and see the young Dylan, with his Pre-Raphaelite hair and his Brando sneer. They want, at least for an hour and a half, a magic act: a man in his eighties who is a man in his youth.
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interferenza.netExcept me, and people like me. And there were a lot of us back then. We came from small towns but wanted to go somewhere big. We felt stifled and confined and wanted to walk in the larger world, but seeing the larger world—the wars and the shootings and how all anyone could talk about was the economy—made us think that the wider world wasn’t worth... See more
Jeremy Spoke in Class Today - The American Scholar
For his first 6 years of trying to be a songwriter, Paul Simon wrote terrible songs. “They were all terrible,” his biographer Robert Hilburn said, “I found his old demos—there’s about 50 of them—and it’s unbelievable: there isn’t one good song.” Finally, in the fall of 1963, Simon made a vow: After spending those first 6 years mostly “copying what
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